Kee v. Shelter Insurance

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

This appeal raises the issue of whether applying the recently amended Savings Statute, Tenn.Code Ann. § 28-l-105(b) (Supp.1992), 1 to an insurance contract existing before the statute’s amendment violates the prohibition in Article I, Section 20 of the Tennessee Constitution against passing “retrospective law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts.” Prior to the amendment, Tennessee courts had interpreted the Savings Statute as not extending the contractual time limitation within which to bring suit for a loss. The policyholder argues on appeal that since the…